After sleeping in after a long night of dancing, a group of us headed out to get some ice cream and visit the Arusha Cultural Heritage Center. It was a gorgeous day to walk around so it was perfect to head over there. The center itself is shaped like a huge drum and shield with tons and tons of artwork and sculptures inside. It was fascinating to see all the different paintings, beadwork and photography they had to offer. After that, we headed back fitting 6 people in a taxi- which led to me sitting on a lap of course. I then packed up quick and headed to my host family’s house once again with plans to make a wonderful spaghetti dinner for my mama. Turns out she didn’t get my text about me making dinner so food was already ready when I got there! We talked over dinner about all sorts of things. It is always good catching up with my ol’ roomie Ash-girl to see how everything is going at her hospital in Machame as well.
Sunday morning I had a wonderful pancake breakfast and headed to Cradle of Love for the third time to play with my favorite toddlers! They were ready and waiting to be played with so that was fun and then left after feeding them delicious ugali, beans, and mchicha. It was the coolest thing on Friday, I had been awing over a set of orphan twins whose mother had died giving birth and it turns out that after a couple days of care at Mt. Meru, they are actually going to Cradle of Love (picture of them below)! That was kind of neat to see that Cradle of Love was contacted right away, and they take such good care of orphans right when they are born. Then, since Aubrey’s host mama works as a cook at the center we took classes at last month, so we got to eat lunch for free- a meal they usually charge $14! YUM! Then, we headed to a festival called Nane Nane, which stands for the date 8/8. Although it is actually Monday, they have the festival all weekend. I had no idea what to expect and it ended up being very similar to a county fair with a lot of agricultural products. It was really neat to see! Also, I lived on the wild side this weekend and took my first piki piki ride (motorcycle). Instead of being packed into a tin can with 25 people, the alternate is to ride a motorcycle with no helmet! It was a lot of fun and I actually felt quite safe after telling the driver to go pole pole. And since it is a national holiday, none of us went into our hospitals on Monday so I stayed at my mama’s Sunday night again and finally cooked her a dinner. Monday was spent relaxing and getting some groceries for the next couple of days.
Sunday morning I had a wonderful pancake breakfast and headed to Cradle of Love for the third time to play with my favorite toddlers! They were ready and waiting to be played with so that was fun and then left after feeding them delicious ugali, beans, and mchicha. It was the coolest thing on Friday, I had been awing over a set of orphan twins whose mother had died giving birth and it turns out that after a couple days of care at Mt. Meru, they are actually going to Cradle of Love (picture of them below)! That was kind of neat to see that Cradle of Love was contacted right away, and they take such good care of orphans right when they are born. Then, since Aubrey’s host mama works as a cook at the center we took classes at last month, so we got to eat lunch for free- a meal they usually charge $14! YUM! Then, we headed to a festival called Nane Nane, which stands for the date 8/8. Although it is actually Monday, they have the festival all weekend. I had no idea what to expect and it ended up being very similar to a county fair with a lot of agricultural products. It was really neat to see! Also, I lived on the wild side this weekend and took my first piki piki ride (motorcycle). Instead of being packed into a tin can with 25 people, the alternate is to ride a motorcycle with no helmet! It was a lot of fun and I actually felt quite safe after telling the driver to go pole pole. And since it is a national holiday, none of us went into our hospitals on Monday so I stayed at my mama’s Sunday night again and finally cooked her a dinner. Monday was spent relaxing and getting some groceries for the next couple of days.
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